TREVOR SMITH DIGGINSA communications professional for over 30 years, Trevor's career has spanned all media, including print, broadcast and social platforms. His expertise in media relations, risk and crisis communication has taken him throughout North America and around the world, from Ottawa and Washington to Hawaii and Japan. Trevor has been a featured reporter and columnist in three newspapers. He spent four years on radio as a Creative Director. As Senior Account Supervisor for Barrow Communications, he provided strategic public relations counsel to a wide range of public and private-sector clients.Later, Trevor joined Weaver, Tanner & Miller as the firm's Director of Public Relations and Account Director responsible for national clients including Environment Canada and the Tree Canada Foundation. During his tenure, Trevor produced “Canada’s Healthy Neighbourhoods,” a national public service TV campaign for Environment Canada’s Action 21 program. Trevor has worked with a diverse range of clients including the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, NASA, Health Canada, Transport Canada, Department of National Defence (Canada), the Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MOE), Dofasco, Frigidaire Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Johnson & Johnson/McNeill, Roxul Inc., as well as numerous municipalities, health care institutions, provincial agencies and boards of education. Trevor has delivered risk communication, crisis and media training for the MOE; the Canadian Department of National Defence; the U.S. Army (Memphis TN); the U.S. Navy (Pearl Harbor, Fallon, NV), and has been a guest presenter at numerous conferences including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Conference on Community Relations, the Federal Contaminated Sites National Conference (Toronto), and the Canadian Water & Wastewater Association Conference (Calgary). In 2004, Trevor and his team developed and delivered a risk communication training program for the U.S. Navy Office of Homeland Security. Trevor trained emergency Navy medical personnel to communicate risk effectively during times of perceived threat to national safety. The three-day course was delivered at naval bases in Virginia, California, and Okinawa, Japan. In 2002, Trevor was invited to the Pentagon by the U.S. Secretary of Defense for an awards ceremony honouring environmental achievement by the U.S. Army in Memphis, where he provided support.